pahlimur
@pahlimur@lemmy.world
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
I generalize millennials as too young to legally drink in the US (21) but old enough to remember the millennium. It’s not completely accurate though.
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
Firm disagree. Social media, or more specifically algorithmic short form content these days, is extremely damaging. It’s different from anything that’s come before and has nothing to do with connecting with your peers.
I graduated high-school in 2009 so I saw the beginning of popularized social media. Very few gained anything from participating in it. Mostly people who were good at marketing and building a following benefited.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
Totally agree. My kids don’t understand why services like youtube suck so much at other people’s homes. My house is only FF with uBlock Origin and I’m looking at putting in a PiHole soon. It’s insane how bad the internet experience has become in the last decade.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
Yep. And using the page feedback button get you off the list from what I can tell. No response from Google but removes the ad block shenanigans instantly.
- Comment on Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology 1 year ago:
Yeah I’m old enough to have started with candy bar phones. Battery life has been creeping back below 1 day for a while. That motoG power would play music on Bluetooth all day if I started at 10% battery. It could also sit at 1% battery for hours if I didn’t touch it. Getting this new flagship phone is making me realize I value battery life way more than I realized.
Biggest issue with the older motoG was the camera sucked. I think the new version fixed that so I’ll probably go back to it.
- Comment on Canon is Making Metalenses, Further Legitimizing the Technology 1 year ago:
My previous phone was a motoG power and though it was bulky and a bit laggy the battery life was amazing. It’s I think 3 years old now and I still use it in airplane mode for reasons. The battery lasts 3 weeks when I don’t touch it. Compare that the s22 I’m typing this on which barely lasts 1 day in standby with batter saver enabled. I hate this phone after having that sweet multi day battery life.
- Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google 1 year ago:
They can see the numbers for new shit reddit and old reddit. They haven’t gotten rid of it because it probably still has a ton of traffic that can display ads. It’s extremely obvious that they fucked up with the new design just because the old one has been around for so long
- Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success 1 year ago:
Calorie per cost isn’t a useful measure unless you’re a livestock animal. Heavily processed bullshit with more calories will leave you hungry in much less time than a well prepared meal with lots of unprocessed fiber.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
Right it would be hard to implement. It’s just one of the types of channels I don’t think should be getting income from ads because it is an ad. Realistically it’s much easier to not bother making more rules that are expensive to implement.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
It would make sense to charge some channels for being on the platform. A good example in my feed is Banks Power. They make their money selling turbos and other stuff to WT. Then they come to YT and build brand precense basically for free. YT deserves some of the money generated from being a cheap advertising platform imo.
- Comment on My elderly parents' car broke down a couple hundred miles away. How can I get them and their car home (or fixed) with a minimum of cost and hassle? 1 year ago:
Don’t ever use leifs. Bloodsucking vampire of a company, high pressure sales tactics included.
- Comment on Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’ 1 year ago:
Not a hard question to answer when you remember how ridiculously stupid he is. I’ve been calling him stupid for a decade and I’m finally cashing in. Dude has accidentally succeeded a couple times and thinks he’s tony stark. Of course he’s going to say the dumbest shit imaginable because he thinks he’s smart so how could his thoughts be dumb?
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
YouTube premium is the worst streaming deal I’ve found. Yesterday I cleaned up all my streaming services and my wife was interested in adding YouTube premium. It’s $23/mth for absolutely no features that are worth it. I pay less for the D+/hulu bundle. I have no idea why anyone pays for it. It’s cheaper to buy a media PC every year to use ublock in a browser than pay for YouTube premium.